Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-10-22
PlTH AND POINT,


tlmldating effect upon boodlers. -Neu
York World.
The Chicago anarchists have been in
a state of suspense for some time. They
will not be again until Nov. 1l.-Neu
York World.
A man can be put down on the lazy
list when he claims that breathing all
day is enough work for any one.-Oii
City Blizzard
Speculation Stacking while commerce
and industry are improving are both
encouraging signs CT the times. -PhtLa-
detphia Times.
Those of us who forgot to get oui
trade-dollars redeemed will now have
to dispose of them at $500 q thousand.
--Omaha World.
A tangible railroad surplus and the
man who struck Billy Patterson are two
things that mo feller can find out. "
Wall Street NeWS.
The woman who marries an ill
tempered husband is right in thinking
that she has struck Lucifer match. =
Merchant TraveLer.
A sportsman who can't bag anything
else can bag his trousers by crawling
on his hands and knees behind fences.
-NeU HaUen NeUs.
We incline to the belief that Bern.
hardt will not enter a nunnery until
after all the other places are closed up.
Peoria Transcript
1t looks as if the New York Episco-
palians would have their cathedral built
before the Grant monument is begun.
atlanta Constitution.
In Singapore. if lover can catch his
adored in a conoe-race he can marry
her; hence the expression, canoebial
liss.-NorWich Bulletin.
The Chicago courts will not rise to
their true sphere of unsefulness until
they can divorce a man from his
creditors. Rochester Post.
Was it Shakespeare or Bacon thai
wrote THE rope swings slowly ir
America, but it gets there just the
same. Peoria Transcript
The way to boom a river is to dam it,
and then break the dam. The way to
dam a town is to boom it and then
break the boom. Erie Telegram.
There is nothing between Jake
Sharp and Sing Sing but his purse, and
the lawyers are RAPIDLY getting that ou
of the way.-LouisUttte commercial
The red flag is very useful acces-
sorry in railway signaling, but as an en-
blem of revolution it has gone to tn,
rear in this country Pittsburgh Post
To trim ship is to restore the center
of gravity to point about which all it:
parts are balanced. To trim bonnie
is to make it top heavy. Boston Tran
script
| When the news of that Baltimore ant
Ohio deal reaches old man Garrett hi
departed dust will jump up in the coffil
and kick the lid off.-L0uiSuille Conl
nlerciai.
1t is said Job never lost his patience
This warrants the inference that h
never undertook to explain a baseball
game to woman.-Binghanaton Re
publican
But two reporters will accompan,
the president on his tour. 1t is>seldOn
that two men have the privilege O
writing for sixty million people. e.-St
Paul Globe.
That big Baltimore and Ohio surplu
that we used to hear so much abou
seems to have been hauled out on
gravel train and used for balast-Phil
adelphia Press.
That interesting story. "The Delin
quent Tax List" is now running il
most of the territorial exchanges.
is a story with bad ending.
nlarck Tribune.
The young man who has manage
the affairs of the Baltimore and Obi
railroad for a few years past isn't a
sound in the Garrett as his father was
TeTas Sitttngs.
Apropos of the new dress coat. il
tended to distinguish guests from wal
ers, the disposition seems to be to let th
walters wear it if they want to-
Philadelphia Times.
Germany evidently classifies the gre;
American potato-bug with the Ame
lean hog and the French spy. as sh
has expelled it from her territory
Philadelphia Times.
The presence of the duke of Mar
borough at Newport has torn societ
like cyclone. There is a GROWN
feeling that title can not veneer
camp.-AltG California.
The man who moves adown life
path and finds it strewn with sweet su
prises is he who knows just how it
done. who keeps a store and al
vertises. Lincoln Democrat.
Look out now for the flowers, ar
fruit and maud linsympathy for the co
demned anarch SITS from women of vi
certain character and feather-braine
men.-IndiGnapolis Journal.
II doesn't rain around here now vii
that grace and wetness with which
did in July. In fact, it hasn't raint
, ON this city for six or eight wee
, more or less. Ttcksburg Herald.
A frontier agent of the governme
has married Cree Indian maide
These Indian agents are graceless lc
Q and more of them should be Gre
!. mated. - Binghamton Republican,
!. 1t occurs to us that the young pc
!. ple who are married at state fairs ha'
!, greater regard for the presents th,
will receive than they have for Il
:. sacredness of the marriage te.-s
t Paul Globe.
!. A Shrewd Dog
o That's a nice dog you have, ID